From: "Pablo Q." <paqs140482@...>
Date: 2008-11-22T03:23:58+09:00
Subject: Re: faster_csv vs File+split, why it is not faster?

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I thought so...

I'm just  comparing a single case of FasterCSV to all the implementation of
the library.

Thank you for your time!


2008/11/21 James Gray <james@grayproductions.net>

> On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Pablo Q. wrote:
>
>  RESULTS
>>
>>     user     system      total        real
>> 16.180000   0.740000  16.920000 ( *17.246190*)
>>     user     system      total        real
>>  5.830000   0.120000   5.950000 (  *6.028469*)
>>
>> is this true?
>>
>
> Is it true that File.split() is faster than FasterCSV?  Yeah, I bet it is.
>  Likely reasons are:
>
> * It's written in C
> * It doesn't handle all types of CSV data, so it has less work to do
>
> To give some examples, you split code doesn't parse this valid CSV data:
>
>  no,quotes
>
> Or this:
>
>  "embedded
> newlines"
>
> Hope that explains things a bit.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>


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Pablo Q.

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